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VIDEO: On CNN, I Explain the Difference Between Donald and Hillary’s Unfavorables

Yesterday I wrote about the false equivalence between Donald and Hillary. I’ve reposted a portion of the piece below, along with a clip of my CNN appearance describing what I call the “mud” analogy, i.e. that Hillary has mud thrown at her while Donald throws mud at everyone else. They both end up with mud on them but for profoundly different reasons.

In recent weeks, we’ve seen a systematic effort by the national media to normalize Donald and equate him with Hillary. Bernie Sanders and some on the left are aiding and abetting them.

But there is NOTHING, absolutely nothing in common between Hillary and Donald. She is light to his darkness, stability to his chaos, discipline to his recklessness, compassion to his bigotry, intelligence to his ignorance.

She understands how policy and government work. She’s not openly racist; she hasn’t encouraged street violence. There’s no risk that she would disrupt the international order or cause an economic crisis out of pique.

And he rightfully concludes:

There will be a tidal pull to normalize this election, to make it Coca-Cola versus Pepsi instead of Coca-Cola versus sewer water.

The New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik is making waves with a blunt assessment of the danger Donald poses:

One can argue about whether to call him a fascist or an authoritarian populist or a grotesque joke made in a nightmare shared between Philip K. Dick and Tom Wolfe, but under any label Trump is a declared enemy of the liberal constitutional order of the United States—the order that has made it, in fact, the great and plural country that it already is. He announces his enmity to America by word and action every day.

And yet, our national media, the Republican Party, and a handful of Hillary detractors on the left want to pretend that there is some parity between Hillary and Donald. There. Is. Not.

Hillary’s negative ratings are the result of a billionaire-funded conservative effort to destroy her image. Trump, on the other hand, is despised by millions of people because his behavior is unquestionably despicable.

Here’s my description of the process in an appearance with CNN’s Ashleigh Banfield: